Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Too old to be fashionable, suitable, or useful; outmoded. synonym: old.
- adjective Very old; aged.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Grown old; obsolete or obsolescent; ill adapted to present use; old-fashioned: said of things: as, an antiquated law.
- Advanced in years; rendered incapable by age; superannuated.
- Synonyms Ancient, Old, Antique, etc. See
ancient .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
old-fashioned ,out of date
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
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Examples
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The chamber report also called for revamping what it called the "antiquated" organizational structure of the commission.
Chamber of Commerce Calls for SEC Changes Andrew Ackerman 2011
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Caterpillar, based in Peoria, Ill., wants to cut wages roughly in half at the Ontario factory, so it will be "cost competitive in the global marketplace," while ending what it calls "antiquated work rules" that limit production flexibility.
In U.S., a Cheaper Labor Pool James R. Hagerty 2012
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You talk verbosely in antiquated terminology of your love of liberty, and all the while you wear the scarlet livery of the Iron Heel. '
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Except to a certain antiquated ideology embraced in biology, which apparently has to be protected in academia by an 'orthodox' priesthood and imposed on society by force of law.
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We would prefer that the kill had been achieved without putting British lives at risk in antiquated aircraft, but now is not the time to be churlish.
Me like... Richard 2006
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“Klei zayin”, or “instruments of weaponry” (i.e., weapons), although somewhat antiquated, is also correct modern Hebrew, and not limited to Bible classusage.
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The German administration claims that it has successfully defied what it describes as the antiquated principles of economics, and believes that this price fixing system can be indefinitely sustained regardless of world wide conditions.
Spotlight on Europe 1938
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The changeful, impetuous wooing of youth lies far behind him, but his homage, which the Ephebi of today would perhaps term antiquated, has always seemed to me as if a mountain were bending before a star.
Cleopatra — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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The changeful, impetuous wooing of youth lies far behind him, but his homage, which the Ephebi of today would perhaps term antiquated, has always seemed to me as if a mountain were bending before
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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The changeful, impetuous wooing of youth lies far behind him, but his homage, which the Ephebi of today would perhaps term antiquated, has always seemed to me as if a mountain were bending before
Cleopatra — Volume 08 Georg Ebers 1867
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